I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age.

I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.